Passover - Mother Tongue

Afghanistan

Herat

'Dayenu' ("it would have sufficed us”) tradition in Afghanistan

Making matzot for Passover

Making matzot in Afghanistan

Passover customs

Passover customs

Passover preparations, Haggada and Sukkot

Algeria

El Oued (Souf)

Passover

Passover customs

Passover preparations

Passover Seder plate

Passover, Sukkot and Shabbat eve customs

Sewing dresses for Passover

Ghardaia

Passover, foods and kapparot (atonement ritual)

Bukhara

Dushanbe

Passover Seder (part A)

Shabbat and holidays

Fergana

Passover and Purim, making matzot and holiday customs

Margilan

Passover and Purim, making matzot and holiday customs

Samarkand

Passover at her father's

Passover Seder (part B)

Shabbat and holidays

Synagogues, making matzot, Sukkot and shechita

Tashkent

Passover at her father's

Caucasus

Baku

Holidyas, festivals and fasting

Derbent

Holidays

Quba

Holidyas, festivals and fasting

Passover and govgil (isru chag)

Passover preparations and celebrations, and mimouna (gov gil)

Qusar

Yom Kippur, Passover and Purim

Egypt

Cairo

Making special matzot for Passover

Passover

Passover

Shabbat and holidays

Yom Kippur and Purim

Europe: Eastern

Buhuși (Romania)

Passover, the synagogue and attitude towards religion

Iași (Romania)

Passover and kosher

Europe: Western

Endingen

Passover customs and 'Ha Laḥma ʿAnya' from Endingen

Izmir

Eḥad Mi Yodeʿa and Ḥad Gadya in Judeo-Spanish

Folktales and Passover Haggada

Passover and its customs

Two Passover Seders and the reading of the Haggada in three languages

Lucerne

Passover customs and 'Ha Laḥma ʿAnya' from Endingen

Milan

Eḥad Mi Yodeʿa and Ḥad Gadya in Judeo-Spanish

Folktales and Passover Haggada

Passover and its customs

Milan (Italy)

Two Passover Seders and the reading of the Haggada in three languages

Zurich (Switzerland)

Passover customs and 'Ha Laḥma ʿAnya' from Endingen

Georgia

Oni

Shabbat and holidays

Greece

Aigio

Confection

Passover

Trikala

Passover

India

Mumbai

Ḥanukka and Passover

Sukkot. Rosh Hashana and Passover

Iran

Arak

Passover

Passover, Purim and Shabbat

Shavuot and Passover ceremonies

Bijar

Passover preparations

Borujerd

Holiday customs

Bukan

Baking matzot for Passover

Buying new clothes for Passover and a family meal in nature on the seventh day of Passover

Golpayegan

Passover

Passover: mimouna, Salino night and matzot making

Shavuot and Passover ceremonies

Hamadan

Passover and Shavuot

Homsar

Foods and Passover

Isfahan

Baking matzot, Passover and Kashrut (dietary laws)

Holidays and women's schooling

Passover

Passover and Passover Eve preparations

Tradition, Shabbat and Passover

Kermanshah

A joint Passover Seder, kashering utensils and the baking of matzot by the men

Passover and Shavuot

Khorasan

Passover cleaning, baking matzot and holiday foods

Khorramshahr

Jewish holidays

Qasr-e Shirin

Jewish holidays

Saqqez

A joint Passover Seder, kashering utensils and the baking of matzot by the men

Shahandasht

Holidays

Shabbat and holidays: building a sukka, studying on Shabbat, eating matza, and the Passover Seder night

Shiraz

Customs for Shabbat and Passover

Yom Kippur and Passover

Teheran

Baking matzot, Passover and Kashrut (dietary laws)

Passover

Passover and Shavuot

Passover, Rosh Hashana and fasting

Purim and Passover

Tradition, Shabbat and Passover

Tehran

Shabbat and holiday

Tuyserkan

Passover and Sukkot

Urmia

Passover, making matzot, Shabbat and Sukkot

Yazd

Holidays and festivals: fasting, Purim, Shabbat, Passover and Sukkot

Iraq

Baghdad

Baking matzot during Passover and distributing them to neighbors

Celebration of the three pilgrimages in Baghdad

Ha Laḥma ʿAnya and Passover preparations

Passover customs

Passover Seder plate

Passover, Rosh Hashana

Basra

Home-made matzot and date syrup, Hagala (koshering dishes for Passover) and reading the Haggada in Hebrew and Arabic

To a king who is a redeemer and a savior

Erbil

Passover

Passover, Shabbat, Purim and Yom Kippur

Kirkuk

Holidays

Holidays and foods

Tuz Khurmatu

Holidays

Passover Eve at her grandparents', reading the Haggada and first Passover in Israel

Israel

Jerusalem

Community and Shabbat and Passover customs

Passover, Rosh Hashana and Sukkot foods

Peqi'in

Passover

Tiberias

Hanukka, Purim and Passover

Passover

Kurdistan

Amadiya

Passover

Amedi

Maftir reading for Shavuot and for the Second Day of Passover

Passover in Baghdad and Amedi and reading the Haggada

Awena

Shabbat and Passover

Song Moshe sings on Passover

Baghdad

Passover

Batas

Language, school, Passover traditions and Islam conversion

Bukan

Passover

Diana

Holidays, kashrut and Shabbat

Duhok

Passover

Passover and Sukkot

Erbil

Holidays

Passover

Ginz

Passover, Yom Kippur and Rosh Hashana

Hasnaka

Purim, Passover, Shavuot and Sukkot

Mergasor

Holidays, kashrut and Shabbat

Mosul

Passover

Rekan

Sukkot, Passover and Shavuot

Rustaqa

Passover

Said 'ubed

Holidays

Sanandaj

Preparing wine and matzot for Passover, and sleeping together in the Sukkah

Sandor

Passover and Sukkot

Purim, Passover, Shavuot and Sukkot

Sulaymaniya

Cleaning for Passover, Passover eve on the floor and is habits

Gifts for Passover

Passover and Shabbat

Passover fables

Zakho

Holidays

Holidays: Lag Ba'omer, Tu BiShvat, Purim, Passover, Shavuot and Sukkot

Passover

Passover and motherhood

Passover customs

Passover preparations

Lebanon

Beirut

Holidays

Making ḥaroset and cookies for Passover

Passover

Purim and Passover

Beirut (Wadi Abu Jamil)

Jewish holidays

Passover

Passover in different parts of the world

Libya

Az-Zawiya

Lamb slaughter during Passover

Passover and matzot making

Benghazi

Foods and preparations for Passover and Rosh Hashana

Israel

Passover customs

Janzur

Rosh Hashana and Passover foods

Misrata

Blessings for the month of Nisan

Maqama for women celebrating Rosh Ḥodesh Nisan

Msallata

Passover customs

Shabbat and holidays

Tripoli

Lamb slaughter during Passover and clothing during Yom Kippur

Lamb slaughter during Passover and making matzot in a special oven

Passover

Passover customs

Passover foods, baking matzot and cleaning the house

Passover preparations

Zliten

Passover customs

Morocco

Agadir

Baking matzot and Passover Kashrut dietary

Asammer

Holidays

Asilah

Purim and Passover

Aїt Hakim

Passover's preparations, Passover customs, avoiding eating sugar and changes in Israel

Aїt Taguella

Holidays

Passover and memories from Aїt Taguella

Casablanca

Ḥanukka, Purim, Passover, Shavuot and Tishʿa BeʾAv

Passover Seder plate, 'Bibhilu' ritual and holiday foods

Foods, Passover, meat and fish

Holidays

Passover

Passover

Passover

Passover and Mimouna

Debdou

Making ʿaraq (drink), wine and matzot for Passover

Passover

El Kelaa des Sraghna

Cleaning, baking matzot and Hagala (koshering dishes for Passover)

Passover

Passover, Mimouna and fasting

El-Qsar el Kebir

Holidays and foods

Erfoud

Seder night, baking different types of matzah and Passover foods

Fedala (Mohammedia)

Passover, Sukkot, Purim and Ḥanukka

Fes

Appreciation of Passover and its foods

Passover and relationship with the Muslims

Passover, folk beliefs and observing religion

Ighil Noro

Baking matzot during Passover

Israel

Passover, making matzot, reading the Haggada, Ḥad Gadya and Mimouna

Marrakesh

Cooking raisins, 'Bibhilu' ritual, and the Messiah's pie

Jewish holidays

Passover

Passover preparations

Passover Seder and 'Eḥad Mi Yodea' (Who Knows One)

Meknes

Holidays, Rabbi Meʾir Baʿal HaNes and Rabbi Toledano

Mimouna and Passover

Passover

Purim and Passover

Mogador (Essaouira)

'Bibhilu' and Passover Seder

Language, foods and holidays

Passover

Passover

Ouarzazate

Passover Seder plate, 'Bibhilu' ritual and holiday foods

Ouled Mansour

Passover and flour grinding

Safi

Momouna and preparations for Passover

Sefrou

Passover and Mimouna

Settat

Community life in Settat

Tanger

Passover and Yom Kippur

Telouet

Brit mila, wedding, Passover and education

Timztot

Passover

Tirsal

Passover, making matzot, reading the Haggada, Ḥad Gadya and Mimouna

Tiznit

Passover, making matzot, reading the Haggada, Ḥad Gadya and Mimouna

Zagora

Life and marriage at the village, her husband's occupation, Passover and Mimouna, bus accident, demon, amulet

Zerkten

Passover and gifts brought by Muslims on mimouna

ǝl-Qǝlʕa dǝ-sraghna'

Purim and Passover

Syria

Aleppo

Passover

Passover and Sukkot

Passover customs: reading the Haggada, prize-themed quiz and dressing up as women

Damascus

Holidays and festivals (public and religious)

Passover

Passover foods and their significance

Passover prohibitions and customs

Israel

Passover customs: reading the Haggada, prize-themed quiz and dressing up as women

Nusaybin

Passover customs: reading the Haggada, prize-themed quiz and dressing up as women

Qamishli

Passover and its celebrations

Tunisia

Beja

Passover

Bizerte

The Prayer for Dew

Djerba

Foods

Passover

Piyyut for Shabbat from Djerba

Gabes

Passover and bsisa night

Passover and delivering meat to the poor

Shabbat and holiday

Shabbat, Rosh Ḥodesh (first of the month) and holidays

La Goulette

Let Us Praise and Drink Wine

Passover

Mahdia

Passover

Nabeul

Jewish holidays

Nefta

Passover customs

Sousse

Passover

Tozeur

Passover

Tunis

The synagogue, school and holidays

Zarzis

Jewish holidays

Turkey

Adana

Holidays and teething ceremony

Ankara

Holidays and mikve

Aydın

Family, community, education and holidays

Passover and synagogues

Buenos Aires

Family, community, education and holidays

Passover and synagogues

Edirne

Simḥat Tora and Passover

Israel

Simḥat Tora and Passover

Istanbul

Holiday cleaning, Passover seder, complaints from Muslim neighbours and bribing police

Holidays and foods

Holidays and mikve

Jewish community, Passover holiday and foods

Reading the Haggada in Hebrew and in Judeo-Spanish and the afikomen custom

Shabbat and holidays

Shabbat and holidays

Shabbat, Passover and further holidays

Singing on Shabbat eve, Shabbat and Passover foods

Izmir

Passover

Passover

Passover and Rosh Hashana

Los Angeles

Holidays and foods

Rhodes

Holidays and foods

Unknown

Holidays and teething ceremony

Yemen

Al Maḥwit

Boys' schooling, housework, Shabbat and Passover

Al Qif

Baking pita bread and preparations for baking Passover matzot

Al-Ashur

Passover and matzot making

Al-Ḥabal

Passover

Al-Lajam

Passover

Bab al-Ḥyder

Baking matzot and making ḥaroset

Daga

Holiday dates, rabbis, Passover and Sukkot

Dhamar

Passover

Ḥabban

Passover

Purim, Hanukka and Passover

Ḥaima

Shabbat, Passover and blessings

Ḥawlan

Passover preparations

Reading the Hagadda with grandfather Yiḥyah and Passover Seder plate

Ḥaydan

Passover

Ḥaydan as-Sham

Making laḥuḥ for Passover, Passover and reading the Haggada

Israel

Making laḥuḥ for Passover, Passover and reading the Haggada

Passover and Shabbat

Maswar

Passover and a portion of the Haggada

Mingide

Nabat

Women and matzot preparation

Najran (Saudi Arabia)

Passover and the preparations for it

Shechita at the Mori for Passover

Rusaba

Preparations for Shabbat, prayer and Passover

Sanaʽa

Lag La'omer and Passover

Passover

Tanˁam

Passover and its foods

Thula

Passover

ʿAden

Passover and Shabbat

Recipes and Passover customs

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